Wesleyan Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Wesleyan Students for Sensible Drug Policy However, since the 1980s, local and national governments around the world have been fighting a misguided, losing war against their own people.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy at Wesleyan University is a grassroots network of students working to end the failed War on Drugs, in order to make both Middletown, CT and our world a safer, better educated and more inclusive community. "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world..." - Global Commission on Drug Policy, 2011

In the US school system, we are often taught that Prohibition ended in the 1930s, with the passage of the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution. The War on Drugs, like the War on Terror, has no clearly defined enemy. As a result, we are all subject to becoming "collateral damage" in the pursuit of platonic ideals which we neither voted nor even acquiesced to. This presents a clear and present danger to the stability of our democracy, our hard-fought gains in racial equality and the very concept of human rights. Prison populations, composed primarily of over-targeted minority groups, have skyrocketed since the 1980s. Moreover, the War on Drugs is an ever-extant, ever-expanding reason for police departments around the globe to spy on their own citizenry, setting up a climate of fear, distrust and marginalization that is wholly at odds with a society founded on ideals of liberty, justice and democracy. Not to mention, this kind of campaign is expensive. The War on Drugs is paid for by cuts to education, healthcare, and other human services. Combined with huge numbers of entirely preventable accidental overdoses and deaths due to prison neglect and poverty, this results in a very real, mounting death toll. We may never know the full body count of this War on us All, but we can work to bring its murderous, misguided reign of terror to a close. Students for Sensible Drug Policy at Wesleyan University is a grassroots network of students working to end this failed War on Drugs, in order to make both Middletown, CT and our world a safer, better educated and more inclusive community.

01/23/2015

Several dozen demonstrators identifying as Stanford students were arrested Monday night after they shut down traffic for more than an hour on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.

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01/22/2015

aw yeah

The Jamaican cabinet approves a bill to legalise use of small amounts of ma*****na which will be examined in the senate this week.

Today is a good day
01/16/2015

Today is a good day

Holder prohibited the process that enabled local police to seize cash without charges under federal law.

01/04/2015

Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is an international grassroots, student-led organization working to end drug prohibition.

12/24/2014

Medical ma*****na saves lives, but legal w**d's benefits are more far-reaching than that.

Interesting new developments; the neoliberalization of cannabis markets...
12/02/2014

Interesting new developments; the neoliberalization of cannabis markets...

As more U.S. states approve ma*****na for medical or recreational use, the price for pot growers in Mexico is falling. This could change the business model for narcotraffickers as well.

11/25/2014

Beginning at 11AM today, students have gathered in Usdan to push back against the verdict of no indictment for Officer Darren Wilson given last night in Ferguson. Wilson shot and killed an unarmed ...

11/20/2014

Two UConn students record an encounter with the UCPD in which they believe they have been wrongfully searched.

11/16/2014

The Carceral State By Kameelah Janan Rasheed California gets called “progressive” despite operating one of the world’s largest prison systems. “Abolition is not simply a reaction to the [prison-industrial complex] but a political commitment that makes the PIC impossible” writes Eric A. Stanley in…

the South is now beginning to throw off the shackles of total prohibition.
11/16/2014

the South is now beginning to throw off the shackles of total prohibition.

GREENVILLE -- A South Carolina state senator said Thursday that he will propose a medicinal ma*****na bill that would allow physicians to prescribe the drug to alleviate pain and treat various conditions.

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